The practice of water-colour painting . withtheir pencil outlines filled in with colour, exceptthat his vigorous method has in it nothing ofthe tentativeness and timidity which characterisedthe technique of most of the earlier water-colourists. His colour washes he sets down with a freebrush and as nearly as possible at full pitch, andexcept for some special reason, he does not touchthem again. Ordinarily no softening or washingdown is attempted in his working method ; suchdevices do not appeal to him because he desiresto retain as far as possible the freshness of thepaper surface and the lumi
The practice of water-colour painting . withtheir pencil outlines filled in with colour, exceptthat his vigorous method has in it nothing ofthe tentativeness and timidity which characterisedthe technique of most of the earlier water-colourists. His colour washes he sets down with a freebrush and as nearly as possible at full pitch, andexcept for some special reason, he does not touchthem again. Ordinarily no softening or washingdown is attempted in his working method ; suchdevices do not appeal to him because he desiresto retain as far as possible the freshness of thepaper surface and the luminosity of the straight-forward, transparent wash, and he feels that thisquality is likely to be lost if the first decisivetouches are interfered with or their characterchanged. At the same time he does not excludeChinese white from the water-colour paintersequipment; he uses it frequently, mixed with allhis pigments, for work on tinted paper, buthe very rarely employs it on white paper, andhe avoids any combination of the opaque and 54. X MR. FRANK BRANGWYN transparent method in the same painting. Hemakes, by the way, no rule as to working withhis paper wet; he puts his washes on to a wet ora dry surface as circumstances may demand, or asthe nature of the subject he is treating may seemto indicate. The colours he uses are cobalt, French blue,yellow ochre, cadmium No. 2, vermilion, Venetianred, burnt sienna, sepia, black, and Chinese white. 55
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